Healtch care is what is driving the debt and deficit. The US spends 200% more than other industrialized countries like Sweden and Japan, and gets helath care results that are actually worse. We are wasting half the money we are spending.

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... The federal budget deficit, which shrank as a percentage of GDP for the third year in a row in 2012, will fall again in 2013, if current laws remain the same. At an estimated $845 billion, the 2013 imbalance would be the first deficit in five years below $1 trillion; and at 5.3 percent of GDP, it would be only about half as large, relative to the size of the economy, as the deficit was in 2009. ...

... With revenues expected to rise more rapidly than spending in the next few years under current law, the deficit is projected to dip as low as 2.4 percent of GDP by 2015 ...

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RedMenace wrote:Healtch care is what is driving the debt and deficit. The US spends 200% more than other industrialized countries like Sweden and Japan, and gets helath care results that are actually worse. We are wasting half the money we are spending.

And the republicans are doing everything they can to keep it that way. If you want to talk stupid.........

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... The federal budget deficit, which shrank as a percentage of GDP for the third year in a row in 2012, will fall again in 2013, if current laws remain the same. At an estimated $845 billion, the 2013 imbalance would be the first deficit in five years below $1 trillion; and at 5.3 percent of GDP, it would be only about half as large, relative to the size of the economy, as the deficit was in 2009. ...

... With revenues expected to rise more rapidly than spending in the next few years under current law, the deficit is projected to dip as low as 2.4 percent of GDP by 2015 ...

Nice article. I noticed you intentionally left out the paragraphs that prove your statement wrong.